Cats can't add, but they sure can multiply!
Cathematics
Use your math skills to learn more about why cats
are prolific multipliers.
1 Cats can have a litter of kittens every
4 months. How many litters can a cat
have in one year?
3 If a female cat gives birth to 3
litters per year, with 5 kittens
per litter, and lives unspayed for
10 years, how many kittens would
this cat have?
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4 A litter of cats is usually one less or
one more than 5. What is the average
number of kittens in a litter?
2 A female cat become pregnant with
her first litter at 4 months old. If the
gestation period is about 60 days,
around how young could a cat have
her first litter of kittens? 5 Feral cats form groups
called a "colony." In order to stop
adding to the existing number of
homeless Community Cats, what
percentage of cats need to be
Spayed/Neutered?
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